Wellston School Adds Speech Therapist While Football Team Loses Head Coach
Wellston city schools will hire a fulltime speech and hearing therapist, replacing a part time specialist. The football program will be run by assistants Tom Baker and Mark Mullen as no head coach is hired. The board accepted resignations of two elementary teachers, granted leaves, and approved several contracts for staff. New teachers were hired and two vacancies remain. Cooks were rehired and the board granted an easement for a water line to Milton School.
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Wellston
Wellston City
Helen Scott
Gladys Blackstone
Jean Ervin
Dorothy Holbert
Mary Shook
Lydian Walburn
Helen Walton
Christine Ervin
Melvina Burk
Margaret Malone
Milton School
Marathon Oil declares 40 cent dividend for shareholders
Marathon Oil Co. directors declared a dividend of 40 cents per share payable Sept. 10 to stockholders of record Aug. 16 in Findlay Ohio.
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Findlay, Ohio
Marathon Oil Co
Denver grad Evan Rudolph earns PhD at UD summer commencement
Evan Rudolph of Monticello Apartments in Athens was among 587 graduates at the University of Denver summer commencement. He was one of 220 students to receive a Ph.D. degree.
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Denver
Colo
Evan Rudolph
Monticello
Athens
University of Denver
FASTEETH Denture Adhesive Advertisement
An advertisement promotes FASTEETH denture adhesive powder as a solution for loose false teeth. It claims the product provides a longer, firmer, steadier hold, making eating more enjoyable and reducing embarrassment. It also urges regular dental care and viewing a dentist for proper denture fit.
Planning Commission Report Outlines Fee Proposals in City
Mayor Leighty presented a plan to fund city services via a 2 percent utility tax, a 75 cent monthly residential service fee, and a business tax to cover WV returns. The plan includes bi monthly billing and radio upgrades for the fire department. Planning commission discussed subdivisions and zoning for an industrial park east of the floodwall, with mobile homes allowed. Curfew discussion on loitering at the high school parking lot was tabled for police review.
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Celia Roush
Point Pleasant
Jon Leighty
Leighty
City Finance Committee
West Virginia
Public Service Commission of
Planning Commission
Mason County
Carroll V. Hill Associates
Penn Central Railroad
Attorneys Buy Goldsberry Office Building at 14 West Washington
The Rowland Bridgewater Robe firm forms Fourteen West Washington Limited to own and operate Dr Blaine Goldsberrys former office at 14 W Washington St The law firm will move its offices to the new companys space while continuing legal practice.
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Rowland, Bridgewater and
Robe
Blaine Goldsberry
Washington St
Erle Bridgewater
Edward
Dr. Goldsberry
Fourteen West Washington Limited
Bridgewater
Lancer Band Practice Schedule Ahead of School Start
The Federal Hocking Band lists practice days as Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays until school begins from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. After classes start, practices move to Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays. The group marched in the Parkersburg Old Fashioned Barbecue Day parade on July 30 and plans to appear August 27 at Nelsonville Parade of the Hills. Their first football game entertainment is set for September 10 with a tag day on October 29 and booster cards on sale.
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Federal Hocking Band
Parkersburg
Nelsonville
Two Federal Programs End in Athens County Schools
The Athens County Board of Education will close two federal programs, Title I and Title VI, by the end of August. Diane Rohner, a satellite office clerk, replaces Jean Perry who resigned July 31 to oversee final book closures on a part time basis. Roberta Weidner resigns from Title I and will serve three weeks as a Title VI secretary to replace Bonnie Springer. End of August ends administration of both projects in Athens County.
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Athens County
Athens County Board of Education
Diane Rohner
Jean Perry
Roberta Weidner
Bonnie Springer
Hearing Set for Phil Lakes in Jackson Case
A preliminary hearing for Phil Lakes on nine counts of possession of stolen property and one count of larceny is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday in Jackson County Court. Lakes is jailed on a $20,000 bond after police recovered stolen goods at Glade.
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Jackson
Phil Lakes
Jackson County Court
Lakes
Glade
Births at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
Birth announcements list Mr and Mrs Gary McCathren Albany a daughter Mr and Mrs Larry Clary McArthur a daughter. Theodore Crawford Linda Hunsicker Mrs Ernest Lambert Dale Sanders Grover Sutton Elmer Pierce William Dailey Ronald Walls all Athens Molly Gardner and Robert Ward LeMaster Pomeroy Mrs Hawk both Chauncey Mrs Ed Selby Murphy McArthur Nannette Bricker The Plains. Dismissed Robert Grey Robert Miller Mrs Roy Ross and daughter.
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Theodore Crawford
Linda Hunsicker
Ernest Lambert
Dale Sanders
Grover Sutton
Elmer Pierce
William Dailey
Ronald Walls
All Athens
Molly Gardner
Robert Ward LeMaster
Pomeroy
Hawk
Chauncey
Ed Selby Murphy
McArthur
Nannette Bricker
the Plains
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John Adkins
Robert Binion
Francis Newman
Thomas Coe
Wanda Farrar
Jean Humphries
Edith Rupert
John Simpson
Macine Toth
Lowell Russ
Grace Keel
Paul Boggs
Carol Bauch
Ann Reitenhoff
Ron Deremer
John Albert
Sharon Downard
Connie Flath
McCormick
Coalton
BankAmericard and
Master Charge
W. Union Street
Ohio
Council
Goldsberry
Attorneys Company
Lancer
Stewart
Island of Manhattan
New York City
Washington
Attorney’s
Woodward
Martings
General Telephone Co
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Gary McCathren
Albany
Larry Clary
Robert Grey
Robert Miller
Roy Ross
A. Gas OF
North Court Street
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Chrysler
Via
Cidar
Bob Hawk
Plymouth
State Street
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